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MICHIGAN

Lansing residents to vote on city council

Shaun Byron
November 6, 2001

A student, some experienced politicians and local challengers have set their sights on the Lansing City Council. Today the polls for the Lansing City Council elections open, and at stake are two seats on the city council at-large and a seat on both the second and fourth wards. Louis Adado, a 42-year-old incumbent, will be completing his first term on the council. He has lived in Lansing his entire life and is the son of a previous city council member. He is running along with incumbent Larry Meyer, Western Michigan University student Vince Villegas and chiropractor Jerry Heathcote for the two open seats on the Lansing City Council at-large. Adado said he will be examining ways to save money and wants to continue improvements to roads and the green areas of Lansing. “(We should) take a good hard look at our parks and (recreation) money and see if we are taking good care of our parks before we add new land,” he said. Adado also serves as the chief executive officer of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association. He said the experience has prepared him for a new term. “There won’t be that learning curve there if Larry (Meyer) and I get re-elected,” Adado said.

COMMENTARY

Cant push beliefs, but dont buy stock

Let’s recognize we are not an island. Our reliance upon the League of Nations assumed we were immune to outside influences and the result was World War II. We are pompous and puritanical if we assume our standards for human behavior is mandated to other societies.

NEWS

Fire destroys home

Mary Sell  and  Jamie Gumbrecht
November 6, 2001

Monday started as a good day for Jen Taylor. The theater graduate student finished up some work, sent her roommates off to dress rehearsal for the MSU Theatre Department production of “Hamlet” and fed her professor’s cat. But when she returned from helping out her professor, the smoke billowing out of her house on Sunrise Court changed the tone of the day. “I heard a beeping noise and then I saw the smoke,” she said.

COMMENTARY

Time for U-M to stop excuses, realize underdog can be better

I can’t speak for everybody, but I’m really getting tired of the bias toward the University of Michigan whenever it comes to MSU. It seems like every time the Spartans make the maize and blue look bad, there are a million excuses why it happened, except for the reason that MSU just came out on top. According to a friend of mine in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines are absolutely livid about Saturday’s last-second touchdown play that handed victory to MSU.

SPORTS

Bye doesnt help in tournament

Aaron Johnson
November 5, 2001

before this weekend, head coach Michele Madison had said the Big Ten Tournament was anyone’s game. Those thoughts turned out to be more accurate than she knew. Despite the MSU field hockey team’s No.

COMMENTARY

Uniform security needed at stadium

As I made my way to Spartan Stadium on Saturday, I was just as excited as the next Spartan. I had my camera and was ready to see a great game. After fighting my way through the crowd, I finally turned in my voucher for a ticket.

SPORTS

Despite loss, Magic glad to be on campus

Dan Woike
November 5, 2001

Sure, the Spartans defeated the Magic Johnson All-Stars 89-87 on Friday night at Breslin Center. And yes, it was Johnson who sophomore guard Marcus Taylor beat off the dribble en route to the game’s winning hoop.But from the look on Johnson’s face after the game, nobody would have known.

MICHIGAN

Drivers advised to stay clear of deer this fall

Alison Barker
November 5, 2001

As the population of about two million deer across the state continues to grow, more car-deer accidents occur, according to a report by AAA Michigan. Because it’s mating season, deer are more apt to walk across roads because they are very active, resulting in more car accidents, said Bill Semion, spokesman for AAA, and a member of the Michigan Deer Crash Coalition.

COMMENTARY

Vote Tuesday

Tuesday’s election will decide who fills two open seats on East Lansing’s City Council. Residents and students will have four candidates to choose from - Planning Commission Chairman Kevin Beard, Planning Commissioner Liz Harrow, Downtown District Authority Chairman Vic Loomis and two-term incumbent Councilmember Bill Sharp. But whoever is chosen, the important thing is that students get out and choose someone. Student voter apathy is one of the biggest problems on campus.

COMMENTARY

Raw emotion

It’s a shame to see a group of firefighters in New York facing criminal charges for some altercations during a rally Friday. Protesting Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s decision to reduce the number of firefighters from the recovery efforts at the World Trade Center disaster site from 300 to 24, 12 people - 11 active firefighters among them - were arrested on charges of inciting a riot, assault, criminal trespassing, disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration. Hundreds of firefighters took part in the protest, organized by the Uniformed Firefighters Association, which believes the cutbacks were done for economic reasons and that all debris, including remains, would be sent to a landfill on Staten Island. City officials said the scaling back was a necessity to maintain safety, noting several near misses at the unsafe site. Clearly, the firefighters were in violation of the law, but it’s a case that is completely understandable.

COMMENTARY

Charges unfounded against mall, store

I’m responding to your recent story detailing 10 black students’ forthcoming lawsuit against the Deb Shop in Meridian Mall (“Students accuse mall of discrimination,” SN 11/1). My opinion rests squarely in favor of Deb. As a private store, Deb clearly has some right to expel disruptive individuals or groups who may be hindering other shoppers.